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Setting:
This chapter happen in the winter of 1968.
What historical events happen in the chapter? In this chapter, people held struggle meetings for the people who does not support Communism, and beat and detain them in their work places.

Plot:
  • At the begginning of this chapter, Uncle Fan visits Ji-li's family, bloody and brusied by the result of serious beatings.
  • After he visits, Uncle Fan is detained, and Ji-li's dad is suspected for hearing foreign radio and eventually, he is detained also.
  • Because of the fact that Ji-li's father is detained, her mother had been an object for the struggle meetings that held in her office, and after that meeting, she fainted
  • After Ji-li's mother has been fainted, Ji-li try to visit her father who is detained in the theater and meet thin faced foreman of the theater and talk about break up with her parents.


Characters:
I newly learned that ji-li's family is Muslim. For Chairman Mao, I learned that he used psycological pressure and even beat them to make people to confess.

Analysis:
This chapter is important to the story because Ji-li's father is detained and he kept detained for the rest of the story until the epilogue.